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Space

DoD Releases Strategy To Bolster Efforts To Leverage Commercial Space Sector

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024

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DoD Releases Strategy To Bolster Efforts To Leverage Commercial Space Sector

Dr. John Plumb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy spoke on Tuesday at Space Symposium. Photo: Space Foundation

The Defense Department on Tuesday released its first Commercial Space Integration Strategy that outlines priorities for pursuing commercial solutions and describes the national security space mission areas where these capabilities have a role. The strategy is essentially meant to strengthen ongoing efforts within the department to leverage commercially-developed capabilities to meet DoD missions. “I think what this strategy hopes to do is say, “Yes, continue working on bringing commercial entities in,’” John Plumb, assistant secretary of defense for space policy,…

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